Manny Mendelson (b 1953) is an American arranger, composer, and music producer. He has won numerous awards for jazz arranging and commercial music production. He earned degrees from Brown University, Manhattan School of Music, and the Eastman School of Music. He has created music for United Airlines, McDonalds, Kraft, General Motors, Allstate, and other top advertisers, winning 3 Clio awards. His scoring has also appeared on CNN, Fox, The Voice, and CBS Sports.

Exceptional facility, preternatural vocal range, and expression make American singer, pianist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator Darryl Tookes one of the few artists of his stature in the world today. In a career spanning over three decades he has collaborated with Burt Bacharach, Quincy Jones, Leonard Bernstein, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Sting, Luther Vandross, and many other music legends. In the words of Blue Note Records Chairman Emeritus, the late Bruce Lundvall, “Darryl Tookes is a signature artist.”  

Darryl Tookes has successful individual recordings including Lifeguard that reached #3 on the Billboard Charts. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, London’s Royal Albert Hall, the Café Carlyle, on Saturday Night Live, and the Tonight Show, to name only a few. A notable Lecturer in Music,  Mr. Tookes teachers at New York University, in both the Tisch School of the Arts, and the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, and Purchase Conservatory.

Darryl spent much of this past year working on music for his latest project  – Symphony of Love. He recorded in New York with Grammy Award-winning producer/orchestrator Gil Goldstein, the St. Luke’s Orchestra, Louis Cato, Bashiri Johnson, Larry Campbell, and Grammy Award-winning engineers Roy Hendrickson and Richard King. Along with Gil Goldstein, Darryl traveled to Montreal to mix with Richard King. Symphony of Love has a companion ballet piece which will enter workshop mode later this year.

	Glenn Jordan is an award winning songwriter, composer, producer, singer and performer whose music is heard every day by millions of people.

	He released  his first solo album Rainbows and Red Sox this year.  It is available through CD baby, I-tunes and Amazon.com

Glenn’s credits as a composer include scoring and providing music for over a thousand episodes of television programs and films in the last 15 years, including The X-files, Millennium, Biography, Doug, 101 Dalmatians, Catdog and Something About Mary.  As composer/musical director of Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Glenn won an Emmy Award in 1991.  As composer on Audubon’s Animal Adventure’s he won the Genesis Award in 1996 in recognition of his work to increase awareness of the plight of endangered species. Jordan has worked with Steve Martin, Candace Bergen, Richard Dreyfus, Sinbad, Morgan Freeman, Tim Daly, Laurence Fishburne, Juliette Lewis, Shelley Duvall and Angela Lansbury in the last few years as well as many others.

As a songwriter and producer he has written for and produced Little Richard, Grace Jones, Tom Rush, Clint Holmes and Shari Lewis.  He recently co-wrote and produced  TL Forsberg’s song Deafinitely which was used as the theme song for the Miss Deaf International pageant.

He scored 8 feature length documentary films for Enduring Freedom Productions over the last 4 years.   The latest 3 are Betty White: Champion for Animals which will air this fall on PBS and The Clintons: An American Odyssey and JFK Remembered: 50 Years Later for Warner Brothers.

As a former member of the group Sha Na Na he toured the world, and performed for audiences as large as 135,000 people.  

As a singer, Glenn has worked on a huge number of projects as both a background and lead vocalist.   He put together a men’s chorus and sang background on the song Say You Will for Kanye West on his 808s and Heartbreak cd.  He was the featured vocalist in the television movie For The Love Of Olivia starring Louis Gosset Jr.   Glenn sang the Beatles’ classic Helter Skelter in the remake of the Charlie Manson movie of the same name for Warner Brothers television.  

His orchestral works has been performed by the Indianapolis and Denver symphonies. His theme park commissions includes “Supersonic Flight” for Six Flags/Great Adventures and “Interactive Wonderland” part of the “Spaceship Earth” attraction at Epcot.

Glenn is one of only 9 people in the world who is qualified and licensed to teach The Equal Interval System of Music Composition created by Lyle “Spud” Murphy.

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